Product Designer Manager

Our mission is to democratize software creation. People from all walks of life and every corner of the globe use Airtable to get their work done—over 300,000 organizations run on Airtable, from massive Fortune 500 companies to small nonprofits. We’ve learned that every community, curator, and corgi parent has unique goals. And we know that the right tools make it easier to get there while unlocking new potential along the way.

Many people don’t have access to perfect software—off-the-shelf solutions aren’t customized to their workflows, and writing new software is expensive and time-consuming. Airtable is breaking down those barriers so that anyone can easily create, customize, and supercharge their own software. As a design team, we strive to craft intuitive product concepts and elegant interaction paradigms that allow people to build this software without code. Our challenge is to evolve and reinterpret decades-old concepts like database creation, control flow, and usability into an accessible platform that everyone feels empowered to use.

We’re looking for a product design manager to contribute to this challenge from start to finish.
If these sound like puzzles you’re eager to help us solve and you’re excited about the chance to lead a crew of humble, talented, and deeply thoughtful designers, we can’t wait for you to apply.

What you'll do

Think deeply about the future of software creation

This is a complex problem space that needs to distill down into simple design solutions. You’ll immerse yourself in company strategy and support your team in the exchange of ideas with a passionate cross-functional group to understand our biggest growth opportunities. You’ll lead holistic thinking about the architecture and systems that make Airtable work.

A very satisfying amount of design focus

You’ll oversee the design of extremely high-quality features and workflows from problem-setting to polish (and every step in between) while fostering a sense of ownership from your team throughout the process. You’ll own regular crits and conversations at each stage and help represent a strong design point of view with cross-functional stakeholders. You’ll both model and guide your team through partnerships with engineering and understand the reality of technical constraints and how to make pragmatic tradeoffs on designs. 

Shape our strategy

Project ideas aren’t just handed off to designers in a fully defined state at Airtable. Designers partner with PMs to define roadmaps, goals, and success metrics focused on the most compelling and high-impact problems. Everyone on the team has a voice to give structure to a vision, even in the “what if” stage. We’re big believers in design-led exploration when we see an opportunity to unpack a tricky problem through user-focus.

See Airtable through the eyes of our customers

We have a fascinatingly diverse customer base, which means a broad and nuanced set of customer needs. You and your team will partner with our researchers, data scientists, and customer specialists to understand the goals and behavior of customers in many industries, and conduct interviews and feedback sessions alongside our researchers. 

Help our design team thrive

The design culture at Airtable is a shared effort. We’re constantly learning and evolving and we deliberately make space for a range of perspectives and experiences. You’ll provide thoughtful day-to-day leadership and guide the development of your reports as well as mentorship to the broader team. You’ll be a part of a sharp design management crew that cares deeply about the balance of people, product and process. We support each other through challenges big and small and work together to grow as both people managers and design leaders.

Who you are

You’ve led teams before

...and have a track record of thoughtful, impactful work to show for it! You have experience managing a team of designers working on projects where quality, scale, and execution are a priority. Bonus if the teams were in a subscription-based software space.

You’re a lifelong learner

Your work’s details and nuances are important to you, and you never feel “done” learning the craft. 

You gravitate towards complex problems

There’s no shortage of challenging, tangly, and impactful problems to solve at Airtable. If you thrive on mind-boggling ambiguity and helping teams find their footing when overwhelmed by the possibilities, we think you’ll have a good time here. 

You like saying “we” more than “I” 

Your team and functional partners will be a collaborative bunch, and you’ll be working closely with other designer managers, engineers, PMs, data scientists, researchers, and more. We are greater than the sum of our parts.

You just go for it

There are lots of opportunities to have a measurable impact as a self-starter at Airtable. You don’t hesitate to champion a good idea until it turns into something that works. 

You’re not afraid to ask a “spicy” question 

Growing our product, team, and culture means reflecting and sometimes challenging our practice and approach. We value new and differing perspectives so that we can continue to thoughtfully evolve. 

You can weather growth

Airtable has more than doubled in size since early 2020. Things change a lot around here—just when you have your head around a process, we outgrow it. We're looking for people who are patient with uncertainty and can help us rise to the occasion of each new moment in our company's rapid development.

You inspire your colleagues to be the best versions of themselves

We authentically admire and respect each other, and we think that motivates us to create great work.

What We Offer

• We have your medical, dental, and vision insurance 100% covered (and your dependents covered at 80%)
• High deductible health plan available with health savings account contribution
• Complimentary One Medical membership for individuals and dependents
• Monthly “Lifestyle Wallet” to use for benefits like personal fitness (e.g., gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc.) to pet care to nutrition coaching, and more.  
• Complimentary mental health support via Modern Health 
• Family planning support via Carrot (fertility, adoption, and surrogacy)
• Flexible and generous time off and sick time benefits
• 16 weeks of parental leave
• Annual Learning & Development wallet to support your career development
• Emergency backup care for dependents 
• Access to financial planning and legal support
• Supplemental reimbursement for Gender Affirmation procedures and services
• Access to pre-tax Transportation & Commuter Benefits

About Airtable 

Airtable is working on the next computer revolution: one where anyone – even without technical training – can create customized applications that fit their needs, build more interconnected teams, and take part in a growing community of people who share what they create. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Airtable powers teams at more than 300,000 organizations around the world. Our most recent funding round valued Airtable at $11.7 billion and raised $735 million in additional capital, and we're just getting started!